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R.D. Wade Builder Inc. to Elmer H. Earnhardt and Christine U. Miller, 1228 Redfields Road, Redfields, $287,800.
Frederick J. and Shelia R. Watkinson to Calvin R. and Elizabeth K. Fitzgerald, 535 Willwood Drive, Fairgrove, Earlysville, $265,000.
Mildred W. Robinson to Herbert Hanft, 111 Georgetown Green, $180,000.
Tonya and Tennille M. Jones to Blenheim Ridge LLC, 13.56 acres in Scottsville Magisterial District, $70,000.
Haden Construction Corp. to Michael C. and Linda L. Lemieux, 179 Deerwood Drive, Deerwood, $260,400.
Quarries LLC to William L. Whitehurst, 21.557 acres, $60,000.
Quarries LLC to Synnove Abrahamsen, 21.856 acres, $60,000.
Rocks LLC to MacMillan Pace LLC, lot in the Rocks, $245,000.
Alice S. Batten to Keith D. and Kenna O. Roots, 110 Indian Springs Road, $469,000.
Liberty Land Ltd. to Charles J. and Caroline R. M. Chung, 1813 Locust Shade Court, Ashcroft, $712,130.
Shari S. and Daniel J. Fowley III to Jerald E. Pinto, 1115 Snowden Drive, Raintree, $279,900.
Craig Enterprises Inc. to Charles D. and Jean S. Drew, lot in Redfields, $247,737.
John L. Gibson Jr. to Geraldine B. Grooms, unit in Turtle Creek condominiums, $94,000.
Sarah V. and Robert I. Buchanan, Trustees, to Giao Xie and Fang Xu, 203 Westminster Road, $315,000.
Laurie J. and Steven R. Miller to George N. and Patsy R. Rogers, 1051 Bristlecone Lane, Forest Lakes, $207,000.
Persephone Canonne to Elizabeth M. and Edward H. Bain Jr., 215 Azalea Drive, $169,000.
Hunter B. Shriner to GMAC Relocation Service, 813 Altavista Avenue, $159,900.
Watson C. and Mary L. Morris to James C. and Catherine E. Scales, 605 Hinton Avenue, $130,000.
Katherine F. Gerdt to Andrew M. and Lydia D. Rodin, 1033 Locust Avenue, $605,000.
Central Virginia Capital LLC to Michael D. Lugar and Richard A. Black, three lots at 802 Nassau Street, $78,000.
Jane W. Rotch to M. Brian and Jennifer C. Slaughter, 808 Fendall Terrace, $450,000.
Lydia B. Peck, Rebecca Butler, and Tammie B. Broaddus to James A. Crawford Sr. and James A. Crawford Jr., 728 Shamrock Road, $194,000.
Church Hill Development Co. LLC to William T. and Katherine J. and William T. Strickland Jr., 709 Avon Street, $185,000.
Southern Properties LLC to Rosemary B. Field and Diane Kiuhara, 158 Burnet Street, Burnet Commons, $249,000.
Watson Morris to Gregory S. Jackson, 606 Hinton Avenue, $115,000.
Watson C. Morris and Mary L. Morris to Gregory S. Jackson, 626 Hinton Avenue, $115,000.
Joe H. Gieck, Trustee, to Robert L. Stokes, 2306 Banbury Street, Greenbrier, $152,000.
John Morrison to Ann Lewis and J. Kempton Shields II, Trustees, 250 Shamrock Road, $159,900.
Elizabeth Boyce Fortune to Bruce Gurley, 1315 Kenwood Lane, $215,500.
Henry J. and Mildred K. Abraham to Michael O. and Prudence M. Thomas, 906 Fendall Terrace, $530,000.
C. Randolph Thunfors to Thomas J. and Joanne F. Miller, unit in Wertland condominiums, $110,000.
Melanie Jane West and Virginia Diane Garrett to Edward A. and Eric T. Andersen, 2515 Plateau Road, $199,999.
Shale Benevolent Land Trust to Ezekiel K. and Mildred M. Best, 100 Shale Place, gift.
Harris S. Sibunruang to Hallie E. Smith, 1618 Hardwood Avenue, pursuant to decree of divorce.
Development Management Too LLC to Lane L. Bonner III, 337 15th Street NW and 341 15th Street NW, no price given.
Stephen P. Janoschka to David J. Toscano and Nancy A. Tramontin, condominium unit at 602 Cabell Avenue, $127,500.
Scott A. Silet and Kristi Severance to Scott A. Silet, 311 Shamrock Road, pursuant to divorce decree.
Scott A. Silet to Russell C. Bailey, 311 Shamrock Road, $157,500.
Mildred L. Brown to Joan P. and Toby L. Goode, 23.83 square feet at 860 St. Charles Avenue, $1,000.
Toby L. and Joan Goode to Johannes C. and Jaclyn C. VanWingerden, 860 St. Charles Avenue, $345,000.
Charles B. and Robert S. Hughes to Barbara Anne Stout, 606 McIntire Road, $170,000.
Benjamin T. Thacker and Susan Thacker-Gwaltney to Mary Y., Matthew B., and W. Shirreff Murray, 308 Monte Vista Avenue, $190,000.
Patricia C. Millen to W. Scott and Tarpley V. Gillespie, 508 Park Plaza, $385,000.
Church Hill Development Co. LLC to Meghan A. Butasek, 1006 Sheridan Avenue, $152,900.
Nancy A. Smith to M. Elizabeth Dickenson, 701 Lexington Avenue, $209,500.
Timothy and Deborah MacDonald to Kenneth A. Sneathern and Larissa C. Paule-Carres, 2625 Jefferson Park Circle, $493,500.
Glen E. and Victoria C. Branham to Dale Ludwig, lot at Midland Street and Randolph Avenue, $29,500.
Page Street LLC to Ronica L. and Jesse J. Turner III, 912 Anderson Street, $185,275.
South Street Properties LLC to Hunt Country Properties LLC, 106 South Street, gift.
Hunt Country Properties LLC to Porterhouse Properties LLC, 106 South Street, $1,250,000.
University of Virginia Community Credit Union to 820 LLC, 822 and 908 East High Street, $540,000.
Brenda L. Howell et al. to Gary M. and Lori W. Fitzgerald, 1540 Avon Street Ext. $270,000.
Ellison B. and Mary E. Jackson to David A. and Charis L. Franz, 224 Fifth Street SW, $185,000.
Peter G. DuBois to Megan M. Raspa, 1625 Mulberry Avenue, $162,000.
Christopher L. Stearns to Maurice E. and Joyce M. Flynn, 107 David Terrace, $157,900.
Rodrigo A. and Melissa C. Montanez to Scott D. Ramm, Julio F. Cordero, and Valeria Vasquez, 103 Lodge Creek Circle, $160,000.
Wendy W. and Howard T. Harvey Jr. to Timothy A. and Deanna C. Gould, 1820 Edgewood Lane, $742,500.
Yonis Argueta and Erika R. Henriquez to Thomas C. and Melanie F. Rhodes, 1600 Rickey Road, $150,000.
Frances M. Goff to Charles S. and Frances P. Gardner, 326 Camellia Drive, Azalea Gardens, $189,900.
Mary P. Newton to Peggy L. Glick, 1421 Early Street, $135,000.
Annie H. Massie to Robert B. and Terri J. Zweig, 1.232 acres at 705 Park Street, $1,000,000.
Christopher A. and Amy B. Jones to Susan B. Jurey, 128 Azalea Drive, $199,500.
John N. LeMasurier to Kevin J. and Alison M. Hessberg, 1122 East Jefferson Street, $200,000.
Judith L. McLeod to Harold K. Herz and Charles Germscheid, 105 Park Lane West, $309,000.
James A. Winkey and Nora M. Kennon to Gregory Vogler, 1507 Chesapeake Street, $124,700.
Norma S. Brandenburg to Fernando E. Garay, unit in Jefferson Park condominiums, $113,000.
Prentice T. and Nancy M. Ragland to William R. and Robbie Burruss, 619 Altavista Avenue, $138,000.
Belmont Loft Company LLC to Margaret B. Haupt, condominium unit #20, $384,000.
John C. and Holland M. Mason to John H. and Laura W. Carrington, 1868 Edgewood Lane, $625,000.
Jeffrey W. and Heidi Lee Thomas to Thomas and Thomas LLC, 1314 Carlton Avenue, no price given.
Thomas L. Belt, Ann B. Seawell and Beverley B. McCauley to Roger D. and Linda C. Neal, 2203 Stadium Road, $500,000.
Todd M. and Liane M. Murphy to Robert R. Matheson, 626 Preston Place, $375,000.
William R. and Johannah L. Castleman to Edward C. Fowler and Wendy L. Carlton, 1880 Westview Road, $525,000.
Thomas A. Kovacs and Erin C. Ellis to Frances H. and Ann McCall, 2214 Banbury Street, $179,500.
Lisa D. Sanchez to Charles Casavant, unit in Charlottesville Towers Condominium, 511 North First Street, $190,000.
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Fox cuts away from moment of silence in Cleveland to air commercial
A decision by Fox to cut away from a moment of silence to air a commercial prior to Sunday's game between the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Browns was swiftly criticized on social media sites.
The network aired the public address announcement at Cleveland Browns Stadium that asked fans to honor the victims of Friday's elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. For 17 seconds, as the stadium grew silent, the network aired its live feed, showing reaction from players, coaches and fans. Then, as a camera showing a wide view of the stadium raised toward the sky, the picture faded out quickly and a Geico commercial featuring the company's animated gecko came on screen.
There was no music, no graphics and no warning from the booth. This made for an uncomfortable transition when a sobering moment of reflection was replaced by a gecko talking about customer satisfaction rates.
The negative reaction on Twitter came immediately.
Joseph White of the Associated Press expressed his surprise with a simple "wow." Cindy Boren, who was running a live chat on the website for The Washington Post called the move tacky. Other reactions on Twitter ranged from disgust to disbelief.
They were warranted. Fox had stayed with the moment of silence for nearly 17 seconds. Couldn't the network have waited until the end before cutting to commercial? Without a warning that commercials were coming, the juxtaposition of the images of a respectful crowd and a loud advertisement -- whether accidental or intentional -- was tone-deaf.
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Home Depot's stock rallied Tuesday, after the home improvement retailer reported strong results, boosted its dividend and announced plans to buy back shares.
Shares of Home Depot (HD) gained 5.6% in afternoon trading.
The nation's leading do-it-yourself home improvement retailer said sales rose 14% in the fourth quarter to $18.2 billion. That helped Home Depot report net earnings of $1 billion, or 68 cents per share, for the quarter.
On top of that, Home Depot's board raised its dividend payment 34% to 39 cents per share, and announced plans to buy back $17 billion of its own stock.
Related: Housing recovery gains strength
Home Depot CEO Frank Blake said the company benefited from "a continued recovery in the housing market," as well as a boost to sales and repairs in areas hit by Hurricane Sandy.
Investors on StockTwits were particularly impressed with Home Depot's same store sales growth, a measure of sales at stores open at least one year. That figure was up 7% in the fourth quarter.
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The S&P Case-Shiller index of home prices in 20 major markets showed an annualized increase of 7.3% in the fourth quarter. Separately, the number of new home sold in January jumped more than 15% from the month before, according to the Census Bureau.
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At approximately 02:00 CEST on Sunday, 28 September, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope automatically entered safe mode when errors were detected in the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter-Side A.
This component is essential for the storage and transmission of data from the telescope's science instruments back to Earth. Ground control attempts to reset the device and obtain a download of the payload computer's memory were unsuccessful.
NASA specialists are currently investigating the problem and are in the process of planning a switch-over to the redundant Side B. This is a complex task and requires that five other modules are also switched to communicating via the B channel. Many of these modules were last activated 20 years ago during ground testing prior to launch. If this transition is successfully completed the telescope could rapidly be returned to science operations.
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David J. Collins is an associate professor of History at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
He received degrees in History, Philosophy, and Theology from universities in Charlottesville/VA, Munich, and Cambridge/MA. He earned his doctoral degree in History at Northwestern University in Evanston/IL in 2004.
This part year he completed a three-year term as director of the doctoral program and chaired the university's Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, whose report, released in September 2016 inspired considerable nation discussion and received international attention.
David Collins's research specialization is the intellectual, religious, and cultural history of medieval and early modern Europe. He has published extensively on the medieval cult of the saints, Renaissance humanism, particularly in Germany, and magic. Most recently, he published The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge/UK, 2015), of which he was the sole editor.
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David Collins is currently studying shifting medieval and early modern understandings of magic in conjunction with developing consensus about "real" science and "rational" theology. He is focusing on the philosophical and theological investigations of the thirteenth-century thinker Albertus Magnus and their reception through the eighteenth century. The emergence and ultimate rejection of Albert's ideas will shed light on larger processes of rationalization in the West.
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Research project "Disenchanting Albert, 1200–1800. How Medieval Thinking about Magic Led to Modern Science and Religion"
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"Scholastic Critics of Magic." In The Ashgate Companion to Medieval Magic. Eds. Sophie Page and Catherine Rider. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2017.
The Cambridge History of Magic in the West. Editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
"Learned Magic in the West, 1200-1800." In The Cambridge History of Magic in the West, 332-360. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
"The Christian Church, 1370-1547." In Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Europe, edited by Hamish Scott. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Albert the Great. Senior volume advisor. In Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, volume 155. Detroit: Gale-Cenage Learning, 2013.
"The Germania illustrata, Humanist History, and the Christianization of Germany." In Sacred History: Uses of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World, pp. 101-120, edited by Katherine Van Liere, et al. Forward by Anthony Grafton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
"The Renaissance of the Maccabees: Old Testament Jews, German Humanists, and the Cult of the Saints in Early Modern Cologne." In Dying for the Faith, Killing for the Faith: Old-Testament Faith-Warriors (1 and 2 Maccabees) in Historical Perspective, pp. 211-245, edited by Gabriela Signori. Forward by Jan Assmann. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
"Albertus, Magnus or Magus?: Magic, Natural Philosophy, and Church Reform in the Late Medieval Ages." Renaissance Quarterly 63 (2010): 1-44.
"Necromancers and Saints: The Medieval Background to a Fifteenth-Century Problem." Hagiotheca 2 (2010): 219-233.
"Reforming Saints: Saints' Lives and Their Authors in Germany, 1470-1530." Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2008.
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North Carolina is reliving a 28-year-old nightmare.
In 1984, the Tar Heels began the year favored to win the national basketball championship — but their point guard broke his wrist.
Fast forward to 2012, and point guard Kendall Marshall could be out with a broken wrist when North Carolina meets Ohio Friday in the NCAA tournament's round of 16 in St. Louis.
The Tar Heels were unable to get it done in 1984 with the team that included future NBA stars Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins even though Smith returned to the lineup.
North Carolina will see if can get it done this year with a roster than includes Harrison Barnes, John Henson and Tyler Zeller with Marshall's return uncertain.
Bill Guthridge, an assistant to retired Hall of Fame coach Dean Smith from 1967-97, said he immediately thought of Kenny Smith after Marshall's injury.
"It's just tough to lose someone so instrumental in the way you play, and that's what Kendall does," said Guthridge, who retired in 2000 after three years as head coach.
Kenny Smith was a freshman starter and missed a month after breaking his left wrist. The '84 team never rediscovered its dominant form after his return.
Guthridge is hoping it doesn't end the same way this time.
"That happens and hopefully we can overcome it," Guthridge said of Marshall's injury. "Coach (Roy) Williams is a great coach and he'll come up with something and hopefully we'll work it out and we can get a win or two — maybe a national championship, who knows?"
Marshall, a lefty, had surgery to insert a screw into his right wrist Monday. Williams said the top-seeded Tar Heels (31-5) are preparing to play without Marshall in the Midwest Regional semifinals.
Marshall is the Tar Heels' most irreplaceable player, from the way he drives Williams' fast-paced offense to the loss of No. 2 ballhandler Dexter Strickland to a knee injury in January.
Smith knows his injury prevented the '84 team from being considered among the game's greats.
"Obviously with Michael Jordan, you know who he's become and who he is, arguably we could've probably been one of the best teams ever, I think," said Smith, now an NBA analyst for TNT and a college basketball analyst for Turner/CBS Sports. "I think we would've been thought of like the (1991) UNLV team that no one was coming close to ... I really believe that."
This was also expected to be one of UNC's best squads.
There were similarities between the 1984 and 2012 teams even before Marshall's injury. Barnes plays the role of Jordan and Henson provides the scoring, rebounding and shot-blocking from the long-armed Perkins. Zeller anchors the post the way eventual No. 1 overall draft pick Brad Daugherty did in 1984. Both teams were preseason No. 1s.
But it all started unraveling with a thud in '84.
UNC was ranked No. 1 in every Associated Press poll that season except for a week at No. 2. But as the team improved to 17-0, Smith jumped a pass and raced in for a dunk before being fouled by LSU's John Tudor and knocked to his home floor.
Smith missed eight games before returning with a rubber cast to play the final two regular-season games. He returned to the starting lineup during the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.
But after juggling from Smith to reserve Steve Hale and back to Smith again, UNC's chemistry was off. The Tar Heels went 26-1 in the regular season — a one-point loss to Arkansas was the only blemish — and 14-0 in league play, but lost to Duke in the ACC semifinals then fell to Bobby Knight and Indiana in the NCAA round of 16 in Atlanta.
Like Smith, Marshall was hurt when he was fouled and knocked to the court on a second-half drive.
The fractures for both players were to their non-shooting hands. Smith — who had a similar surgery to Marshall after that season — said Marshall's pass-first style could make it easier to contribute if he's healthy enough to return.
"I think he is such a great facilitator, a superior facilitator to anyone in college basketball today," Smith said. "He's a guy who could play a game with the injury I had and still be super effective. I don't think I could've been super effective. ... I think he'd be OK because part of his repertoire is being able to score, but Kendall can go games and get six points and be the most dominant player on the court."
In a text message to the AP on Wednesday, Marshall's father Dennis said his son was "doing well" and "in good spirits." He said it was still too early to say whether Marshall could play in St. Louis, noting he "hasn't been ruled out, but not cleared to play either."
Kendall Marshall said on Twitter that his cast has been removed, and his father said he's now wearing a removable splint. However, if he's out, freshman Stilman White and versatile senior Justin Watts would play the point.
"Everybody goes out there and we play, and we just depend on each other," Barnes said. "I have confidence in John that he'll be able to step up. He has confidence in Stilman that Stilman will be able to step up. We have confidence in Justin Watts.
"We feel like we can still get it done."
Smith said Marshall's injury isn't crippling, that the team's frontcourt trio could be enough to keep the Tar Heels advancing in a season that has at most four games left.
If they can't, it will be another bad break for a UNC team that had the chance to be special.
"You just have to be good and you have to be lucky," Guthridge said. "We could just never get the chemistry right (after Smith's return). If we would've played another game and got everybody's role good, I think we could've won the national championship. But we didn't."
North Carolina is reliving a 28-year-old nightmare.


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Here are the cookies I made for The Muffin's birthday party:
Most of these were very simple. The idea behind the shapes comes, once again, from the Rainbow Magic series of fairy books. Each fairy has her own colour of fairy dust, which changes into a shape in midair. Ruby the Red Fairy's dust turns into little red flowers, Amber's turns to orange bubbles, Saffron's to yellow butterflies, Fern's to green leaves, Sky's to blue stars, Inky's to indigo ink drops, and Heather's to violet blossoms. So most of the cookies are minis, in these shapes and colours. I wanted to keep them quite simple so that they would be more like, for example, a leaf shape rather than an actual leaf.
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Theresa (Tracy) Anselmo joined the Colorado Association of Local Public Health Officials (CALPHO) in July 2017. She has worked in the public, private and nonprofit sectors, and she has served as a board member and on several advisory bodies. Prior to coming to CALPHO Tracy was the Executive Director for Partnership for the Children of San Luis Obispo County, the Oral Health Program Manager for the County of San Luis Obispo, and the Dental Director for the State of Colorado. Her experience includes 26 years in dentistry, and over 15 years in public health. She obtained her bachelor of science in dental hygiene at the University of Colorado School of Dentistry and her MPH at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.
Michelle Ponce is the executive director of the Kansas Association of Local Health Departments and has served in this role since August 2011. Previously, Ponce held a variety of positions with the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, including director of communications and special assistant for the Integrated Services Delivery division. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in political science from Emporia State University and a Master of Public Administration degree from Wichita State University. She is a 2014 Kansas Sunflower Foundation Advocacy Fellow and a 2017 Oral Health Kansas Dental Champion. She lives in Emporia, Kansas with her husband, Tony, and their four sons.
Ruth Maiorana is the Executive Director for the Maryland Association of County Health Officers (MACHO) in the Public Health Practice & Training Office at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In this capacity, Ruth has oversight of all aspects of MACHO operations, management, budget, assessment and evaluation, and policy implementation. Ruth provides administrative support to MACHO, the current President, and all association Standing and Ad Hoc Committees. As primary legislative staff, she monitors and tracks state and federal legislative sessions on public health issues of interest to MACHO, drafts position papers, and is responsible for coordinating testimony on public health issues supported by MACHO.
Diane L. Weber is currently the Executive Director of the Missouri Association of Local Public Health Agencies (MoALPHA). She brings over 30 years' experience in public health and health education. She served as the Wellness Coordinator for the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater St. Louis for three years. Prior to that, she was the Assistant Executive Director for the Heartland Centers for Public Health and Community Capacity Development at Saint Louis University. Ms. Weber has facilitated the strategic planning process for local public health agencies and has coordinated the Public Health Leadership Institute. She has developed and implemented curricula for workshops, conferences, and community based health education projects. As MoALPHA's Executive Director, she advocates for local public health agencies across the state on training, education, legislative, and resource needs.
Susan Brockrath is the Executive Director of the Nebraska Association of Local Health Directors (NALHD) where she applies her experience in public health, education, project management, evaluation, and health literacy to amplifying local health departments' efforts to make "the good life" a healthy one for all Nebraskans. Since being hired in 2013, Susan has overseen a ten-fold growth in NALHD's scope of work and budget. NALHDs' work today includes broad efforts to 1) support health departments in their roles as regional health strategist, 2) advocate for local public health, and 3) promote whole community wellbeing. Susan holds a Master's Degree in Public Health from the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health (1998) and is a Certified Public Health Education Specialist.
Sarah Ravenhall, MHA, CHES assumed the role of Executive Director at New York State Association of County Health Officials (NYSACHO) in December 2017. With over ten years of experience working in the field of public health, she most recently worked for the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council, a hospital membership association, to manage and implement its population health improvement program. This work entailed optimizing program processes, setting strategic program vision, oversight of fiscal management, leading workgroup projects, measuring program impact and increasing program visibility at the national and state level.
Mary Korsmo has served as the Executive Director for the ND State Association of City and County Health Officials (SACCHO) since 2014 when ND SACCHO signed an agreement for Executive Director services with the ND Association of Counties (NDACo). Mary has extensive government relations experience at national, state and local levels as well as association management, public relations, conference planning/logistics and communications expertise. In addition to overseeing the efficient day-to-day operations of ND SACCHO, Mary is part of the NDACo legislative team.Mary has a BBS with a French minor from the University of North Dakota. She is the mother of four and spends her free time with her husband attending band concerts, chauffeuring and cheering for her kids at various sporting events.
Jessica Karlsruher is the Executive Director of the Texas Association for County and City Health Officials (TACCHO). Jessica brings almost 20 years of experience with trade associations, nonprofits, and patient advocacy groups to this position. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and began her career at the Texas Capitol. After graduation, Jessica worked at the Texas Association of Realtors (TAR) in the Government Affairs Department where she coordinated lobby days and other grassroots efforts, hosted leadership and PAC conferences, and lobbied on behalf of TAR. Jessica left TAR after four years of service to work in Washington, DC in state society management for the American Academy of Dermatology. She transitioned into nonprofit fundraising, raising awareness and funds for organizations such as the Foundation to Eradicate Duchenne and the Testicular Cancer Foundation. Most recently, Jessica served as the Director of External Relations for the Texas State Historical Association, where she was responsible for fundraising, events, marketing, and outreach.
Jamie Bodden has been the Managing Director for Washington State Association of Local Public Health Officials (WSALPHO) since 2017. Before working for WSALPHO, Jaime was the Director for a small health department in rural Wisconsin. Jaime earned a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Women's Studies from Marquette University and her Masters of Public Health and Masters of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis. She brings experience in community engagement, global health, health policy, and program evaluation to her work. Jaime is also a returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Senegal and enjoys exploring the diverse outdoors Washington offers, walking her dogs, and gardening.
Jamie Michael is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES), with almost five years of association management experience. Her previous work was managing a multi-jurisdictional tobacco coalition in Northeast Wisconsin. She currently serves as the Association Director for the Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards at Badger Bay Management Company. She manages various aspects of membership, communications, governance, and education not only for WALHDAB, but for other public health related clients as well.Jamie received her Bachelor's degree in Community Health Education and a Minor in Nutrition from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, and resides in Appleton, WI. She is also a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC). She enjoys spending her spare time with her husband, Andy, and her twin boys, Alex and Ayden.
Dr. Marcy Flanagan is the Director of the Pima County Health Department in Tucson, Arizona. Through her more than 16 years of public health work, Flanagan has been a champion for the thousands of Pima County residents this agency serves. She is a current member of the Arizona Public Health Association and American Public Health Association, and serves on the Metropolitan Education Commission and National Association of City and County Health Officials. She is also a member of the Arizona Association of Local Health Officers, where she serves as the current president. Director Flanagan has served as a collaborator for a number of community-based agencies and nongovernmental organizations and is active in the training and mentoring of students and professionals in her field. Director Flanagan earned her bachelor's degree from University of Arizona and a master's from Northern Arizona University. Additionally, she received her doctorate in business administration from Walden University.
Kari Oldfield, JD, is the Executive Director for the Local Public Health Association (LPHA) of Minnesota, working with more than 230 from health departments across the state. In her role, Kari advocates for public health related policy, arranges professional development opportunities and creates resources for the use of members. Prior to her role at LPHA, Kari worked four years in tobacco control. She was involved in the passage of policies increasing the price of cigars, regulating sales of flavored tobacco products, increasing the tobacco sale age to 21, and restricting the use of electronic cigarettes in indoor public spaces. Kari received her JD from Hamline University School of Law where she focused on health law and health care compliance and her BA from Coe College focusing on communications and political science.
SACCHOs Represent the Grassroots of Local Public Health
Do you want to get to know other professionals in your area and contribute to developing an active, vibrant local public health community? Then consider whether joining a state association of county and city health officials (SACCHO) or forming one in your state would be right for you.SACCHO membership complements NACCHO membership and provides a vital link between local and national public health. The leadership structure of SACCHOs varies widely and allows for numerous involvement options. SACCHO membership may be purchased directly through a local SACCHO. With 38 SACCHOs affiliated with NACCHO, public health professionals can become visibly engaged members of a local SACCHO while developing new contacts and increasing knowledge. Ways to get involved include the following:
- Expanding the circle of colleagues and contacts.
- Networking at local meetings, luncheons, receptions, and programs.
- Exchanging knowledge with local experts.
- Stepping into leadership roles.
- Advocating for the public health profession.
- Learning about professional development and job opportunities in the community.
Is there someone at the decision-making table with local health departments' best interests in mind? Is there a place where local health officials in your state can meet and share ideas or current events? If the answer to these questions is no, then consider forming a SACCHO. SACCHOs are important because (1) local health departments and their staff can work together and organize more effectively to impact public health in the places where they live; (2) local health departments need a voice in decisions that affect the services they provide, and often the best place to maximize opportunities for participation is at the local or state level; and (3) NACCHO needs a strong local base of members to change policies at the state and national levels.


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Honey-Garlic Pork Ribs
Total TimePrep: 10 min. + marinating Bake: 1-1/2 hours
Makes4 servings
- 4 pounds pork spareribs or pork loin back ribs
- 1 cup honey
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground mustard
- Cut ribs into serving-size pieces; place in a large resealable plastic bag. Combine remaining ingredients; pour half the marinade over the ribs. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for several hours or overnight, turning bag occasionally. Cover and refrigerate remaining marinade.
- Drain and discard marinade from ribs. Place ribs on a rack in a greased shallow baking pan. Cover and bake at 350° for 1 hour. Drain. Pour reserved marinade over ribs. Bake, uncovered, for 30-45 minutes or until meat is tender, brushing occasionally with pan juices.
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Apr 13, 2014
I used a little less sugar and honey and a little more garlic, and threw in a 1/4 of chili powder (we wanted a little more kick than sweet), and they were still too sweet and the garlic got lost. They turned out very dry. The recipe didn't really make enough sauce to marinade overnight and then baste while cooking. Also, when I got to the 30 minutes of cooking it uncovered, some of honey in the sauce stuck to the pan and burnt. I might try these again, but they weren't that great.
Apr 19, 2013
I love this recipe. I make it using Country Pork Ribs so the time is different on the cooking. I also add some other ingredients, worshier sauce, Ponzu Sauce, onion powder, Dales, Teriyaki sauce. Pepper, and salt as well. I just eyeball everythingThe recipe as itself is pretty good I just like to add stuff to make things taste better :3
Mar 2, 2013
Has anyone tried this recipe yet???ginny
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I haven't tasted it yet.
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Mar 10, 2011
they have great flavor but they taste much better cooked in the slow cooker for 8 hours
Feb 26, 2011
My husband's family and my family both adore this recipe and I always have to make extra. I do marinade my ribs for 48 - 72 hours, as a simple overnight marinade leaves something to be desired in the flavor department. Over all, a very easy to make recipe with fantastic results every time.
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Hilary Putnam, Cogan University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard, was one of the most influential philosophers of our time. His extraordinarily wide-ranging contributions, spanning 24 books and over 300 articles, are unusual not only because of their originality, but also for a fearless habit of criticising and rethinking his views. This radical practice of philosophy also brought him into conversation with numerous philosphers, giving an unmatched breadth to his work. He was also unique in his ability to re-set the research agenda in key areas of philosophies of science, mathematics, language and mind.
In 1927, when Hilary was six months old, the family moved to Paris where his father, Samuel Putnam, translated the works of Rabelais and edited the literary magazine The New Review. Putnam grew up in the cosmopolitan artistic world of Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Elliot, Joyce, and Ford Madox Ford. His upbringing contributed to a distaste for the narrowness and insularity of much of contemporary philosophy. The blog Sardonic Comment, which he launched in 2013 and kept going until the onset of ill health in October 2015, is a testament to his commitment to inclusivity.
Putnam's earliest writing focused on philosophy of mathematics and science. Two central arguments, the "indispensability argument" in philosophy of mathematics and the "no-miracle argument" in philosophy of science, advance the claim that we are unable to explain the successes of scientific theories unless we assume that they provide true accounts of how things stand in the world. Both arguments remain central to philosophical discussions of science and mathematics. In addition to his philosophical work, Putnam's co-publication with M. Davis and J Robinson, of a proof of Hilbert's Tenth Problem, established him as a major figure in mathematics, giving further support to the claim by many, including his life-long friend Noam Chomsky, that he was one of the finest minds of our time.
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Organised by the Asian Film Awards Academy ("AFA Academy"), the Asian Film Awards ("AFA") will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year. For this edition, 77 nominations have been made for 15 awards. The nominations represent 36 films from 9 countries. World-renowned Hong Kong director Johnnie To Kei-fung will serve as this year's Jury President and lead a jury comprising our two charismatic and popular celebrity jurors, Hong Kong actor Sean Lau Ching-wan and mainland Chinese actress Gao Yuanyuan, as well as 12 respected film industry professionals, festival programmers and critics from all over the world.
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Corporate wars often seem to produce casualties, but in the battle between Amazon and a New York-based publishing house a winner has emerged and her name is Edan Lepucki.
The Southern California native's dystopian novel, "California," set in a near-future Los Angeles, has become one of the summer's must-reads. It has become a critical and popular success, currently No. 3 on The New York Times Best Sellers List, as much because of Stephen Colbert's very public rant against the online bookseller as for the book's unsettling landscape that may spook Angelenos.
Set in 2050, the book centers around a married couple, Cal and Frida, who decide to leave postapocalyptic Los Angeles behind for a back-to-basics existence in the wilderness.
"There's not a nuclear bomb or anything like that, but there's been a couple of earthquakes, a lot of crime, there's no money for police or any other public services — there's just a lot of devastation and this couple doesn't want to be a part of it anymore," Lepucki said. "They just want to leave it all behind."
Then Frida realizes she's pregnant and this new wrinkle has the couple relocating, once again, from their solitary life of hardships in favor of a settlement. They feel the safety and companionship of a community will be better for their child. However, in this eerie township, security may be an illusion with Cal and Frida not knowing whom to trust.
Lepucki professed her love for her home state and said the book's devastation is just for the story, which she got — and where she gets many of her ideas — in her car.
"I was driving west on Sunset from downtown going through Silver Lake and I started thinking, 'What if the streetlights went out right now?' " she said. "Then I went on to think, 'What if there was no services at all? What would happen?' "
The story blossomed from there.
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Born in Santa Monica, Lepucki moved to Los Angeles when she was an infant. Lepucki, who said she's always been an avid reader, later went on to work at the Los Angeles bookstores Book Soup and Skylight Books. Years later, she's come back to her hometown support network to promote her own work.
The 33-year-old writer will be at Barnes & Noble Booksellers at The Grove in Los Angeles on Wednesday signing "California."
The L.A. appearance comes after a recent book signing at Vroman's, a Pasadena bookstore, attended by more than 150 fans.
"So many wonderful people, many from the literary community were there," recalled Alison Hill, president of Vroman's Bookstore.
Hill first met Lepucki about 15 years ago when Hill hired the young writer while Lepucki was on a break from college.
"You could see so clearly that Edan was smart as a whip; observant, clever, quick — and not in a pretentious way," Hill said. "She loves books and people, and bringing the two together."
Lepucki, who has published numerous articles, graduated from Oberlin College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is a staff writer for The Millions, an online magazine about books, arts and culture, and teaches creative writing at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and for Writing Workshops Los Angeles, which she founded and serves as co-director.
"I have wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember," she said. "I always had my parents' support, which was very important. I told them that's what I wanted to do and they were more than OK with it, they thought that was great."
But Lepucki suffered her share of heartbreak. A year of rejection while trying to sell her first novel manuscript was a difficult time for the writer.
"That's when I started to write 'California.' It helped me get through the rough spots. Writing has always helped me move on," she said. "To be a writer, I think you have to be one part delusional and, of course, have a great passion for your craft. It was the pain from the first book (that) made me write the second. Writing saved me."
The popularity of her new book came about in an unexpected way.
The book got some exposure when comedian Stephen Colbert used it on his Comedy Central talk show, "The Colbert Report," as a rallying cry in protest of Amazon's decision to discontinue preorders for Hachette Book Group, which published "California" (under the Little, Brown and Co. imprint) as well as Colbert's books.
"This is a death sentence for new authors," Colbert said.
Fellow Hachette author Sherman Alexie, who first brought "California" to Colbert's attention, explained, "pre-publicity is everything."
"The fortunes of a movie are determined before it ever screens in the theater," Alexie told Colbert during his June 4 appearance on "The Colbert Report." "The fortunes of a book are determined before it ever hits the shelves — presales and pre-publicity determine the success of the book."
Colbert encouraged readers to purchase "California" through his website. And they listened. The website sold more then 6,400 copies.
Since the book's release on July 8, sales have soared.
"I feel so grateful that my book was chosen," said Lepucki, who now lives in Berkeley. "The book was doing pretty well, but I never expected it to be on the best-seller list."
The book also has had some positive reviews. The San Jose Mercury News called Lepucki, "a terrific writer, and like the best stories set in a foreseeable future, 'California' deftly weaves the terrifying strands of what we already know with what we can only imagine."
Hill read an advance copy of "California" and knew it was something special after the first 10 pages.
"I had to text her to tell her how wonderful I thought it was," Hill said. "Something came up and I had to put it down for about a week, but when I picked it back up I read the whole thing in one sitting. This book is evocative, imaginative, disconcerting — disconcerting mainly because it's so familiar to the world we live in right now. This is a book people can get behind. It's a weird book, but weird in all the great ways."
The setting, at least, should feel familiar for Angelenos as "California" includes many Los Angeles landmarks.
"Before Cal and Frida leave Los Angeles, Frida was a baker at Canter's on Fairfax," she said, referring to the longtime eatery. "In the very first chapter, Frida's thinking about The Grove and all the stores that had gone out of business and that the trolley's bell has been looted."
There's also a mention of the Hollywood & Highland center.
"I wrote my book from the point of view of an Angeleno," Lepucki said. "I love California and only destroyed it in the name of art."


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Examining your health insurance options under Obamacare
Starting Oct. 1, millions of Californians can start signing up for health insurance under the federal Affordable Care Act.
In addition to new coverage options, the healthcare law changes the rules of the insurance game for many consumers. It also requires most Americans to get health insurance or pay a penalty.
Here are some answers to commonly asked questions. Please share your comments or ask questions at email@example.com. Submissions must include names and phone numbers.
Do I need to do anything right now?
You have time to consider your options. You can start signing up for health insurance Tuesday through Covered California, the state's new marketplace.
The earliest policies take effect is Jan. 1. You'll need to buy a health plan no later than Dec. 15 if you want your benefits to kick in at the start of the year. Enrollment for the state exchange runs through March 31. Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program, accepts applicants year round.
Where do I go to enroll?
In California, go to the Covered California website or call the health marketplace at (800) 300-1506. The state can also refer you to community groups, insurance agents and government offices that offer enrollment help in person.
Outside California, visit HealthCare.gov to find the link and other contact information for the marketplace in your state.
I get my insurance through work. Will that be affected next year because of all this?
Most people with health insurance through work won't be directly affected by the overhaul.
Employers will keep adjusting their health benefits as they have for years, but in most cases those changes in coverage or worker contributions have little to do with the Affordable Care Act. Changes are driven largely by employers' efforts to reduce their healthcare costs.
How much will this new health coverage cost?
That depends on your age, where you live, the level of coverage you want and whether you qualify for a federal subsidy based on your income.
Four basic levels of coverage are sold through Covered California: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. Bronze plans are generally the least expensive, while Platinum plans are the priciest.
For example, a family of four in Los Angeles earning $65,000 a year could pay $384 a month for a mid-level Silver plan.
In general, more comprehensive plans have more expensive premiums but have lower out-of-pocket costs for medical care. For instance, a Bronze plan on average covers 60% of a person's total healthcare costs. At the high end, Platinum plans cover 90%.
People younger than 30 also have the option of a less expensive and more limited policy.
There are subsidies: Individuals earning less than $45,960 annually may qualify for federal tax credits that lower their monthly premium. Subsidies are available for a family of four making less than $94,200.
For a sense of what health insurance may cost you, check the state's calculator.
Can I wait until I get sick to enroll?
No. There is a six-month open enrollment period that runs from Tuesday to March 31.
If you fail to sign up during that period, you'll be on the hook for your medical bills. Unless you're eligible for Medi-Cal, you wouldn't be able to buy insurance in the exchange until the next enrollment period comes around in fall 2014.
There are exceptions. People who experience a "qualifying event" that affects their insurance coverage, such as losing a job, will be allowed to buy coverage outside of the open enrollment period.
What are the penalties if I don't buy health insurance?
The federal health law requires most Americans to buy health insurance. If you don't, you'll be charged a penalty in 2014 of $95 or 1% of your household income, whichever is greater. The penalties go up after that.
Will I pay more for being a smoker or having cancer in the past?
Although the federal law allows insurers to charge smokers as much as 50% more than nonsmokers, California decided not to levy that surcharge. Smokers and nonsmokers are treated the same.
Everyone is guaranteed coverage regardless of their medical history under the law. Also, insurers can't charge people more based on their health.
What kind of income is counted in determining whether I qualify for premium subsidies?
Salary or income from a job or business counts when it comes to calculating whether you qualify for Medicaid or federal subsidies toward the purchase of private insurance.
Other sources of income, such as unemployment insurance, pensions, Social Security, alimony and rental proceeds, all count. Your assets, like a home, are not included in the calculation.
For many taxpayers, line 37 on their most recent IRS Form 1040 provides an idea of what will be used.
Does my employer have to offer me coverage now?
Most large employers already provide benefits. But starting in 2015, firms with 50 or more full-time workers will be required to provide health coverage to employees who work more than 30 hours a week, on average.
What will it cost when I go to the ER or see the doctor?
That depends on the plan you select. All health plans sold to individuals and small businesses next year must help cover the cost of emergency services.
In a Bronze plan in California, for instance, you would owe a $300 co-payment for a visit to the emergency room. A primary-care appointment would cost $45 on a Silver plan. Lower-income patients would pay even less thanks to federal cost-sharing subsidies.
Who qualifies for Medi-Cal?
That is California's Medicaid program for the poor. Under the federal law, the state has expanded eligibility to people earning as much as $15,856 a year or families of four earning less than $32,500.
I have a small business with five employees. How does this affect me?
Firms with fewer than 50 full-time employees aren't required to provide health insurance. It remains optional under the health law.
Covered California offers a marketplace specifically for small businesses to shop for coverage apart from where individuals buy policies. Some small firms may also be eligible for tax credits.
I'm an undocumented resident in California. Can I get financial help with my premiums?
No, undocumented residents are not eligible for federal subsidies. There are other county and private programs that may assist people with their medical bills.
I have Medicare. Do I have to buy a new health plan through the marketplace?
No, anyone currently covered by Medicare or the U.S. Veterans Administration will remain with those government programs.
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Press Release posted 6/7/12 – Join us for the grand opening and ribbon cutting of the beautiful new Rotary Children's Library on Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 6 p.m. in the Sierra Madre Public Library.
Improvements include the removal of an emergency exit, replacement of windows, bookshelves, furniture, paint and carpet. The layout of the room has been changed to create a preschool zone, study zone and computer /technology zone. Funding for the updates came from private donations raised during a year-long fundraising drive. The ribbon-cutting will take place just in time for the Summer Reading Program which starts on June 18. The Library is located at 440 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre, CA 91024 (626) 355-7186.


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Words for Charity: Zynga Launches Celebrity Mobile Games Challenge
Win a chance to play Words With Friends against John Legend, Snoop Lion or Eva Longoria — but not Alec Baldwin — in Zynga's first-ever Words With Friends Celebrity Challenge. Zynga is partnering with American Express — and a few other celebrities — to give $500,000 to charity. The games begin tomorrow and end Oct. 3.


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"[EA]'s 'Fewer, Bigger, Better' strategy for its key packaged goods releases will not work if the games are, in fact, not 'Better.'" -Analyst Michael Pachter lamenting the oddly low quality and poor sales of Medal of Honor: Warfighter and praising the delay of Fuse. ("Packaged goods" are games sold in stores, not the ever-growing number of ones EA's selling just to phones are running on Facebook.)
EA does make some clunkers. But it's not all bad. Not by a long shot. EA's FIFA is considered top-shelf. NHL's a winner. Need for Speed: Most Wanted was amazing. Dead Space 3 (pictured above), Sim City, Dragon Age III and Battlefield 4 better be.
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From Eco-Prisoner Support to Eco-Resistance Against Prisons
Reflections on June 11 and its Potential
From Earth First! Newswire/By Panagioti
Hopefully by now you've returned safely home from a quaint letter-writing potluck or an epic road blockade in solidarity with the incarcerated environmental activists and eco-revolutionaries of the world. Perhaps you're now ready to sit and reflect, and maybe even start thinking about what we should do next year. If that sounds like you, please read on.
Let's start with the history
It's been 11 years since the first time that activists coordinated an international day of solidarity action around the case of environmental prisoner Jeff Luers. Luers was charged with a relatively small crime, damaging several SUVs in a car dealership lot, but sentenced to 22 years in prison with the explicit intention of sending a chilling message to the environmental movement. It's a history that could easily be forgotten, given how quickly the webpages that document these things tend to come and go. It felt lucky to find an existing link on Portland IMC that so thoroughly captured that event (and it felt disconcerting that the majority of hyperlinks embedded in there were dead.) The date in that call-out was actually June 12, and people planned actions throughout mid-June in response to that call.
The article included reportbacks from 23 events including places as a far as Russia, Norway and Australia, with a focus on the event in Jeff's hometown prior to incarceration, Eugene, OR. His parents showed up to greet a crowd of several hundred with this message:
Good evening… .Thank you all for coming… .Today is intended to be a day for public education and awareness about Jeff and his case… .The FBI, in it's bulletin to law enforcement agencies, has chosen to make it sound like an ELF (Earth Liberation Front) call to action. That's wrong, but it got Jeff and his case some good publicity in places such as Morgantown, West Virginia and Palm Beach, Florida that may not have developed otherwise….My wife, Judy, and I want to thank all of the organizers and attendees at this event and similar events around the world designed to bring attention to the injustice done to our son, Jeff "Free" Luers.
Aside from getting Jeff's parents to turn out for it, there were some other unique and important components to the first "June 11″ event. (more…)


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HD board rolls to Buffalo
In case you were wondering how many huge flatbed semi-trucks it would take to deliver the largest HD video board in all of minor league baseball…the answer is 2!
Despite a long haul from South Dakota, the BisonsTV HD board has arrived.
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The new barometer of High Street misery?
The recent turmoil in the financial markets and this week's plunging Marks & Spencer share price has reminded me of an oft-forgotten adage that goes something like this: don't invest in what you don't understand.
It's basic commonsense advice that the morons in the banking industry who have taken the Western economy to the brink by creating collateralized debt obligations and other instruments of credit crunch would have done well to adhere to.
And it's a rule that I try to live by, which is why I would never invest in retail shares.
I don't understand retailing. Why anyone would choose to go into a shop and buy things is a concept that is simply beyond my comprehension.
I hate shops. And I hate shopping. My former local butcher was a rude ruddy-faced misogynist with few manners and missing chromosomes - and he had knives. What's the motivation for anyone to enter an establishment for verbal abuse and sausagemeat? I don't get it.
Unfortunately, you cannot get through life and avoid shops entirely. I tried that one.
On the plus side, this simple fact makes retailing an easy sector for investors to follow. To get a snapshot of a company's health you can wander in off the street and see whether it's full of happy people buying stuff. Or not...
Increasingly, people are running out of the credit that has sustained the shopping boom of the past few years and, as Marks and Spencer has found, people aren't buying like they used to.
Walk into a store now and what you see are not legions of happy shoppers but whole private armies of security personnel charged with preventing now-penniless customers from trying to feed their addiction for off-the-peg clothes and food - without paying for it.
It's a phenomenon that has led me to consider and now create a new barometer for measuring the state of the High Street: the Security Quotient.
Now, I like security guards. A bit. For two reasons. First, behind the uniform there often stands a proud person who has been led on a fascinating journey through life before reaching their destination: the door of that shop. Second, a security guard once apprehended a would-be car thief who was trying to hotwire my Ford Escort 1.6.
But, I sense the industry is getting out of control and is only going to get worse. Bring on the new barometer.
If I had used Security Quotient I could have easily predicted that M&S shares were heading for a serious tumble. If you walk through the store close to our office (admittedly it is a popular shortcut for the Tube station) you face a gauntlet of armed* warriors trained and primed to tackle the slightest social misdemeanour like looking at the racks of old ladies' clothes in the wrong way. That's the sign of a worried company. Security Quotient: 8. Shares down almost 23% this week.
Sainsbury's on the other hand has relaxed its ludicrously over-the-top security presence at my local branch, Quotient 4, sales up over Christmas. Sales were also up at Asda, Quotient 3, which has always appeared less keen than rivals to treat customers like criminals.
You can't invest in Boots. It's just as well. I was chased around the store all the way from the antiseptic creams to hot water bottles by a security man keen to make sure I never go in the store again. I swear he was tugging a Rottweiler. But that might have been my festive head playing up. Quotient 9.
Tesco is peculiar. The Kensington store has a guard right by the door but they've thoughtfully provided him with a big telly to watch all day rather than the customers. This offsets the over-the-top presence on the lower floor. Quotient 6, sales up.
And so finally to PC World. I've saved the best till last.
The guard at the Kensington branch of PC World has his own stage, on which I believe the 02 arena was moulded. From here he controls eight million spy cameras and oversees a series of electronic gates. I wouldn't be surprised if they scan your iris as you enter. I would be surprised if anyone ever shops there.
PC World can, therefore, proudly lay claim to a full Quotient of 10. A feat backed by the performance of shares in its parent company, DSG International, now down more than 60% over the last year.
This may all be rather frivolous stuff but next time you're in store check the Security Quotient then check the share performance. I may be on to something.
Richard Browning, This is Money
Now read this
Retail woe gives shares the jitters
or this
Bloodbath and boom of the High Streets
and, of course
PC World's adventure shopping experience
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Jumping on the bandwagon. It's fun at first. I'm always a bandwagon NFL fan. I love the winning team. That one and which ever one Tom Brady is on. He's so cute, right? Mark Sanchez is easy on the eyes, too. That's not what this post is about..how did I get there? I'm about to be 40...Is it the cougar coming out of me? please laugh here....
So, jumping on the bandwagon. 3 years ago, I was trying not to get on the Facebook bandwagon. Seriously, I was on Twitter before that and I didn't even know what it was!! I thought Facebook was that silly place that my little sister would go to check up on her ex-boyfriend. (sorry N, if you are reading this! xo) Really, it was just something the college kids were doing. I had a few friends jumping on and they were having a little fun with it. Talking to high school friends...really? did I want to go there? Don't get me wrong, I love my high school and the friends from there, but all the drama that was from high school. I guess I expected it to be on Facebook!! Well, I was right about that part.....and not the high school friends!!
It is my life now. I am on Facebook for hours a day. I don't play games, I don't stalk people (wink) and I don't update my status every 5 seconds. If I have to pee, you don't have to know it. It's my network. It's how I find out who won the game, that a tornado touched down, that LSU 's busses can't leave the hotel because someone painted a 50 yard line in front of it! That's hilarious, you have to admit! I also make new friends and find old ones. I find people that live within 10 miles of me that I have SO much in common with. We pull together and do things to help each other. It's how I keep up with EVERYONE! If someone has a baby, I check Facebook to find out when. It's life events, the world around us and right next door. Someone will say, "I don't have time for it.". Ok, neither do I. I make time for it. I want to know how my friends are and seriously, there is a contest, I can win a new pair of jeans!! I did! On FACEBOOK! I got them and yes, they fit PERFECTLY! It's like the yellow pages with a friends recommendation. You need something? Ask for it on Facebook. You will find it!
I do a lot more with this social network, too. I help businesses find more customers. over 800 million people are on Facebook all over the world. It's the best marketing tool you can have. You have to utilize it in a way that benefits your business. There are no HARD-CORE numbers that prove the ROI, but when someone walks in your store almost every day and says, "you have a great Facebook page", it makes sense. You may even be lucky to have someone make a purchase and say, "The only reason I even came here was from your Facebook page." They probably won't, but you can't NOT be on there!
There are other social platforms out there. They may not all work for you. I love Pinterest and blogging. They fit with most of my clients. I am still learning everyday. I did get a likeable book today. It's all about social media and how it works. Not sure why I need that, but I'm sure I will get something out of it. If I do, I will share it with you. It is the reason I decided to write this post!
BTW, I am still trying to take a photo a day. I've missed a few. I decided not to post here because after the 2nd day someone unsubscribed. It hurt my feelings and I stopped doing something for them. I guess that was the wrong decision. Maybe I will bring it back...or you can just keep up on my Facebook page!
One more thing.....Roll Tide! Congrats on the National Championship!
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A "New American" piece from Thursday, 06 September 2012 10:09 Rory Reid, the eldest son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), is the chief representative for a Chinese energy firm planning to build a $5-billion solar plant on public land in Laughlin, Nevada. ENN Energy Group, a clean-energy firm that manufactures a range of renewable-energy products, is seeking to construct its solar panel facility on a 9,000-acre stretch of land on a Clark County desert plot.The controversy stems from the fact that Clark County officials voted to sell ENN the public land for $4.5 million, a figure startlingly below the $38.6-million appraisal. Conveniently, Sen. Reid has been one of ENN's most prominent supporters, having helped mobilize the firm during a 2011 trip to China. Reid's influence in the Chinese company has been so compelling that, according to Reuters, last month he tried to "pressure Nevada's largest power company, NV Energy, to sign up as ENN's first customer."Both Rory and his father have since denied having ever discussed the $5-billion deal. A spokeswoman for Sen. Reid, Kristen Orthman, insisted that he'd never deliberated over the project with his son. Rory Reid added, "I have never discussed the project with my father or his staff."Despite his assertions, critics say Rory Reid's political ties in the deal seems rather explicit. In addition to being the son of a prominent U.S. senator, he also formerly chaired the Clark County commission. Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen, said Rory's father is implicating himself in "an iffy ethical landscape" and should recuse himself from the solar project. "Is this just happening because ... it benefits the Reid family, or did Harry Reid actually believe in this?" Holman queried.To expedite the project, ENN recruited Nevada's largest and most renowned law firm, Lionel Sawyer & Collins, where Rory Reid works. Moreover, Richard Bryan, who has an extensive history in the state's political system — a former Nevada governor, attorney general, and U.S. senator — heads the Chinese energy firm.As reported, the ENN deal ignited a heated controversy, mainly because separate appraisals valued the plot of land at $29.6 million and $38.6 million, tens of millions of dollars more than the selling price. However, the county commissioners drafted a series of conditions that must be met before the project can launch, including achievements in job creation and investment, and a provision stating that ENN must have a power company committed to purchasing energy from the new plant. The latter requirement has been the primary obstacle — then, Harry Reid stepped in.The Nevada senator recently initiated an online discussion, purportedly to address his annual energy summit, as an effort to persuade NV Energy, the state's largest utility company, to ink a deal as ENN's first customer. In the July 30 forum, Reid asserted that construction on the project "would start tomorrow if NV Energy would purchase the power." The power company controls "95 percent of all of the electricity that is produced in Nevada and they should go along with this," he added.In addition to Reid's and his son's questionable affairs with the ENN project, the Nevada senator has had other dubious political dealings within the clean-energy sector. American solar firm Amonix, for example, recently slipped into financial disarray after receiving $6 million in federal tax credits and a $15.6-million grant in 2007 for research and development. Amazingly, the company is only 16 months old, without any track record of success, yet it received a multi-million-dollar, taxpayer-funded jackpot. Many critics asked why. In a July article, the Las Vegas Review-Journal offered this answer:Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., and Gov. Brian Sandoval were among the political leaders who lauded the company when it announced it would start making solar panels in the Golden Triangle Industrial Park. Reid in particular has pushed for solar energy research and development in Nevada, drawing parallels between the value of Nevada sunshine and Saudi Arabian oil.Of course, Amonix was not the only Nevada-based green energy project to lurch into financial ruin. Nevada Geothermal, a renewable energy company that secured a $98-million federal loan guarantee, acknowledged in an SEC filing this summer that "material uncertainties exist which cast significant doubt upon the company's ability to continue as a going concern."Similar to his dealings with Amonix, Sen. Reid was largely instrumental in securing government support for Nevada Geothermal. In fact, according to the New York Times, Reid "pressur[ed] the Department of Interior to move more quickly on applications to build clean energy projects on federally owned land and urg[ed] other member of Congress to expand federal tax incentives to help build geothermal plants, benefits that Nevada Geothermal has taken advantage of."And now, it seems Sen. Reid's political status has influenced not only the green-energy agendas in his state but the financial interests of Nevada's largest law firm — where it just so happens his son is employed.http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/energ...id-bolsters-sonYeah, if I had a son involved in a business deal this big I would never discuss it with him either.
Rory Reid. A flake off the old marshmallow.His father, Harry Reid. Traitor.
The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government. ~ Thomas Paine
@Cincinnatus Thanks for posting. Two interesting comments:
ZitatFor those playing catch up on the Bundy Ranch crisis... it is OVER, BLM has retreated and released the Bundy's cattle.. But ONLY after news of THIS has hit the net...Former Chief Staffer for Harry Reid Runs the BLM now! Harry Reid son, Roy Reid is a lobbyist for this China co. ENN ... The Bundy Ranch was in the way of the 5 billion dollar land deal. Cause they wouldn't SELL.Imagine THAT...Corrupt politicians, Nepotism, backroom deals.. while violating a families civil rights,liberty and freedom FOR PROFIT.
ZitatWhat is not mentioned is that Reid's political cunning lets him be directed by the INSIDERS, whose aim is to create (1) Chinese colonization of American land through unconstitutional purchase, and (2) create an energy famine to lower the standard of living of Americans for a comfortable merger with neighboring third world nations under the North American Union under the United Nations.Reid will no doubt deny this if challenged, considering this truth to be "extremist," and knowing he is protected by public opinion, molded by the INSIDER-controlled mass media.
Illegitimi non Carborundum
"Rory Reid, the eldest son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), is the chief representative for a Chinese energy firm planning to build a $5-billion solar plant on public land in Laughlin, Nevada [ENN Energy Group] The controversy stems from the fact that Clark County officials voted to sell ENN the public land for $4.5 million, a figure startlingly below the $38.6-million appraisal."Start right there obviously. At first blush this has all the hallmarks of a sweetheart deal: a Senator's son benefits from a phenomenal land deal and a foreign Country, the Chinese even, is the prime beneficiary.Sweetheart deals like this reek of corruption and make me sick!
*******************"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." Abraham Lincoln"Either the Republican party will reform itself or its going the way of the wind." Pat Caddell at CPAC
So the Koch Bros are behind this?